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World music is a classification that anchors sonic works rooted in regional, place-specific cultural traditions, framing works that emerge from contexts often sidelined by mainstream global music industry structures to reach audiences beyond their local geographic spheres. This sound, titled Bersemilah, originates from Indonesia, a nation whose diverse array of cultural and artistic traditions has long been a core part of the global world music canon. The classification of world music was first formalized to address gaps in mainstream music categorization that prioritized commercial works from a small set of Western markets, erasing the depth and breadth of sonic creation from every other region of the globe.
